Jeremy Kessel, Twitter’s legal policy manager took to the site on Saturday to announce the new policy. His tweet said that the microblogging service now offers “more transparency in processing copyright reports by withholding Tweets.” In the past, the site would simply take down the tweet in question without warning or explanation.

This new policy was first reported by GigaOm, but news of the policy changes traveled across the Twitterverse this week. Some users even took it upon themselves to tweet out fictitious examples of the copyright infringement messaging to show their disapproval for copyright policies in general.

Laurie Mahoney is the Director of Product Marketing at Cision. She is a regular contributor to Cision Blog mainly focusing on topics like content marketing, social media and SEO. Laurie is a Chicagoan now, but spent her earlier days in the South where she attended the University of Georgia. She has a weakness for good TV, sushi and anything that mentions “salted caramel” in the name. You can find her on Twitter @channermahoney.